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Hello all,
I have a 180 gallon with sailfin tang, luetenent tang and blue tang along with some butterfly’s Anthia, angelfish
There has been some increasing aggression in the tank recently between the angelfish, I started with four dwarfs and now am left with two. I chalked it up to aggression.
Well now a few months later my most prized and loved fish, sailfin tang, was found dead. The night before he looked pretty beat up from fighting with lieutenant tang, but they fought somewhat regularly and didn’t think anything of it.
I’m pretty devastated and lost some interest in the hobby. Has anyone had a tang kill another out of aggression like this?
I’m now worried that these deaths are due to bacterial ailments or something because I can’t imagine this much loss due to aggression only.
there is no crypto/velvet in this tank ever but I did have a bacterial infection outbreak resulting in cloudy eyes about 6 months ago. This was treated and hasn’t returned. But I’m wondering if it could be lingering in the background.
Or simply tang killing tang.
Any advice or help? I would like to hear people have experienced a tang killing another tang which I can’t find much info about.
thanks
I have a 180 gallon with sailfin tang, luetenent tang and blue tang along with some butterfly’s Anthia, angelfish
There has been some increasing aggression in the tank recently between the angelfish, I started with four dwarfs and now am left with two. I chalked it up to aggression.
Well now a few months later my most prized and loved fish, sailfin tang, was found dead. The night before he looked pretty beat up from fighting with lieutenant tang, but they fought somewhat regularly and didn’t think anything of it.
I’m pretty devastated and lost some interest in the hobby. Has anyone had a tang kill another out of aggression like this?
I’m now worried that these deaths are due to bacterial ailments or something because I can’t imagine this much loss due to aggression only.
there is no crypto/velvet in this tank ever but I did have a bacterial infection outbreak resulting in cloudy eyes about 6 months ago. This was treated and hasn’t returned. But I’m wondering if it could be lingering in the background.
Or simply tang killing tang.
Any advice or help? I would like to hear people have experienced a tang killing another tang which I can’t find much info about.
thanks